Update: I was unfortunately not aware of Shamus Young's severe criticism of Fallout 3 available here to link in the original piece and I regret that. It dovetails rather nicely with what I've written and it's much better executed than my piece. I strongly recommend anyone...

Daniel, have you gotten through to GTA online, yet? They've launched the title update I've mentioned about. Gotta get more crew members. I've only killed used so far and he killed me back. Fun little 1 vs 1._________________

I always forget to back up the back up. One thing's for sure... I have great confidence in cloud server and cloud save technology.

Got online on Xbox 360, played with Used and his friend for like two hours yesterday. So much fun. So much more fun than playing by yourself. Really though it's becoming clear that this is not cut out to be a multiplayer game. It's fun and it's still viable for people who want to get together in a virtual world, hold up some liquor stores, and maybe try a few missions, but the loading is incessant. There's way more loading than there is gameplay and that's my number one complaint. One race only lasted two minutes, but it took easily 5-8 minutes of loading and matchmaking to get there. If I just wanna roll through a bunch of deathmatches, it's gotta work faster. Not as fast as CoD, but faster than this garbage. Like make a bunch of indoor GTA arenas so you don't have to load the world all the time.

That was a ton of fun, Daniel. Golf was a huge drag but the rest was a romp.

I actually think you're being a little tough on the load times. They don't bother me as much for whatever reason.

The load times aren't really bothering me much right now either (PS3). Don't get me wrong I really hope it improves but being less than a week into it I haven't lost all hope yet.

I did however lose both characters I created. I just sent a report in to R* but I see now it says the cloud servers are unavialabe so hopefully they'll pop back up._________________Formally the poopdog2

You know what I wish? That you could skip the opening cutscene. I would care a shitload less about starting a new character if it just dropped me in and didn't make me watch me meet with Lamar for the fucking tenth time. I am so fucking tired of that shit. I just want to fucking play. Stop making me listen to Lamar talk about stupid shit, stop making me watch credits, stop making me do the opening fucking race.